Although sixteen-year-old Ben leads a privileged life he is failing to engage with it. EXIT MARRAKECH opens with his luxurious private school in Germany breaking up for the summer holidays and the principal calling him in for a little chat …
Last night I attended the People’s Choice Showcase of the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival, which comprised performances of the plays chosen by audiences from the past eight weeks. As expected, the showcase was an entertaining, often heart-warming collection. Were …
I caught up with the final week of heats of the main Short and Sweet theatre program.
As always, the playwrights explored an impressive, diverse range of subjects in interesting ways. The success of their explorations came down to how …
Frothy, silly, and sentimental, WRESTLING QUEENS pits a bunch of checkout chicks against a mob of murderous Mexicans in the World Wide Wrestling arena.
Grappling to win back the affection of her son whom she has had to foster out …
Emmanuelle Devos draws on her own vocation in JUST A SIGH (LE TEMPS DE L’AVENTURE) in which she plays a jobbing actress, Alix.
At the beginning of JUST A SIGH Alix is waiting in the wings preparing to come on …
In VIOLETTE, brilliant French actress Emmanuelle Devos portrays writer Violette Leduc. If Simone de Beauvoir was the Queen of French letters then Violete was the princess, heir apparent to post war Paris literati.
Pic opens with Violette being pursued through …
Thank goodness that the short play ‘Level 2’ was performed before interval on Friday night! I was ready to leave the theatre after the first four plays, and then this brilliant piece, written by Mike McRae, blew my mind! This …
What a great night at the theatre!
The Biggest Little Play Festival in the World is in the sixth week of its eight week run, and it just seems to get better every week. Each night, the audience is asked …
If there is one singular reason to attend the Alliance Francais Film Festival it’s Fanny Ardant. Those who are not already ardent fans of Fanny Ardant should be after seeing BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD, with Fanny at her funniest as a …
JAPPELOUP tells the story of an Olympic champion show jumper who scored spectacular success in Seoul.
Written and starring Guillaume Canet as Pierre Durand the equestrian who ditched a career at the bar to raise the bar of elite steed …